Agnes Nixon's Lifetime Achievement Award

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Agnes Nixon, the creative force behind both "All My Children" and "One Life to Live" and a writer on "Loving," "Another World," "Guiding Light" and "As the World Turns" (among others), was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2010 Daytime Emmys. Nixon's montage focused on how socially conscious her shows have been -- her storylines have dealth with gay and lesbian issue , AIDS, alcoholism and a plethora of other issues. Also? No Prince covers in her tribute. -- Andrea Reiher, Zap2it Related: Agnes Nixon with Susan Lucci

Agnes Nixon, the creative force behind both "All My Children" and "One Life to Live" and a writer on "Loving," "Another World," "Guiding Light" and "As the World Turns" (among others), was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2010 Daytime Emmys. Nixon's montage focused on how socially conscious her shows have been -- her storylines have dealth with gay and lesbian issue , AIDS, alcoholism and a plethora of other issues. Also? No Prince covers in her tribute. -- Andrea Reiher, Zap2it Related: Agnes Nixon with Susan Lucci (Getty)

Agnes Nixon, the creative force behind both "All My Children" and "One Life to Live" and a writer on "Loving," "Another World," "Guiding Light" and "As the World Turns" (among others), was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2010 Daytime Emmys. Nixon's montage focused on how socially conscious her shows have been -- her storylines have dealth with gay and lesbian issue , AIDS, alcoholism and a plethora of other issues. Also? No Prince covers in her tribute. -- Andrea Reiher, Zap2it Related: Agnes Nixon with Susan Lucci